Rosemary Connelly

Author: Stephanie Meyer
What i am trying to prove: How she changed teenage liteture and perception of famous monsters, more specific;Vampires and Werewolfs.
Book/Series i am focusing on: Twilight saga
Thesis: Even though Stephanie Meyer's veiw of monsters has not changed us from a classic movie monster,Twilight portrays how human the cullens are andhow the storyline is really realistic fiction because Stephanie Meyer has shifted teenage book more into a more goth/vampire era and that now our perception of monsters is that they are not ruthless monsters
and acutally humanish..


RESEARCH: StephanieMeyer.com

1. twilight was based on a dream
2. the Cullen’s are animal blood-drinkers while most of the vamps are true blood drinker
3. compared as a modern Romeo and Juliet (it true they are both not human at the end)
4. relates to many teens romantic feelings
5. is a broad topic that is classified as a litte bit dark/emo, fantasy, anf realistic fiction.
6. stefanie meyer had never written any books before the twilight seires
7. stephanie Meyer has another book called the host.had her insperation for the Twilight series in June 2003
8. she finished her first book in 3 months
9. has 3 sons
10. in 2005 twilight was the most talked about book
11. twilight was in the top ten bestsellers list on amazon.com
12. new moon, the second book in the twilight series was released in september 2006
13. eclipse was released in 2007
14. Vampires were now popular and twilight midnight partys and vampire proms were taking place
15. in agust 2008 stephanie meyer released the final book in the twilight seires, Breaking Dawn
16. in the same year as the release of the final twilight book the twilight movi came out on November 21, 2008
17. the twilight movie made $70 million in the first weekend
18. stephanie lives in Arizona
19. on the mornig of the release of her final book Stephanie Meyer was on good morning america
20. the book are constantly leaked everywhere

Source 2: The Twilight Series

1. the main characters in the book are Edward and Bella
2. Stephanie Meyer wrote the twilight series which portrays vampires as immortal humans that are pale beautys. instead of a pale fanged creature that sleeps in coffins and only come out at night; The vampires in the Twilight series are fang-less runway models that do not sleep at all, have rock hard skin, oh and can be walking around during the day and SPARKLE when the are in sun.
3. the werewolf in the Twilight seires are not victims of a werewolf bite but rather a small group of indians that a few of can shape shift into wolfs the size of a mini-van. and forget only changing on a full moon; these werewolfs can change into a wolf day or night anytime they want to.
4. In the twilight seires werewolfs and vampires can run at extreme speeds to which they are a blur and yet do not break the sound barrier. They also seem to have heighten senses of sight, hearing, and the other senses. some of the vampire have even more impossibe things like some can control the elements, read minds, make people suffer, or even predict the future.
5. bella is the new kid in school
6. the cullen are basicly the weirdos at the school
7. the cullens are animal blood-drinkers while most of the vamps are true blood drinker :)
8. the cullens are basicly a group of unrelated vamp that never settle in one spot
9. Jasper is the newest in the family and still craves human blood
10. bella is turned into a vampire in breaking dawn
11. edward and bella have a kid
12. bella and edward get married
13. the law in the vampire world is enforced by the voltouri
14. the werewolfs in twilight are only around when vampires are
15. in the last book the volturi and the cullens (and friends) face off.
16. jasper is from the civil war
17. the volturi want to kill bella unless she is turned into a vamp
18. the volturi live in Italy in Voltura
19. Voltura is a real town in Italy
20. Edward can read everyone’s mind but Bella's

Source 3: Goodreads.com

1. Born december 24, 1973 in Connecticut
2. Writes science fiction, young adult(teen) and romance
3. inspired by Shakespear
4. lived/lives in phoniex, new mexico
5. weird spelling of her name came from her father
6. went to high school in scottsdale
7. lived in a very rich neighborhood
8. was awarded a merit scholarship
9. went to brigahm young university in Utah
10. majored in english
11. never saw herself as a writer
12. married her best friend
13. have three sons that remind her of "chimapanzee's on crack"
14. cant write without music
15. LOVES the band muse
16. never had plastic surgery
17. did not own a car till she was 20
18. most of the people in her neighborhood had very expensive cars
19. phoniex is where the twilight book (and movie)start out
20. stephanie meyer considers herself a native to phoneix

Source 4: The Host

1. is about a race of aliens taking over earth
2. the main character is wanda, a alien from the race of "Souls" inside a human Melanie Stryder's body
3. humans become host's for Souls
4. un-hosted humans or "wild" by soul standards are hunted and captured
5. Wanda goes looking for the humans that are related to Melanie, her host.
6. most of the book takes place in phoniex new mexico
7. all of her storys have phoniex new mexico in them
8. Melanie's brother jamie considers wanda like melanie
9. Wanda has been to 8 other planets
10. the humans you meet in the story are hideing in a desert.
11. all souls are from the Origin
12. most of the human in that cave want to kill wanda
13. Souls mostly left the human world alone in that it looks the same it did before the invasion
14. humans are suprised on the personality of Souls
15. Only seekers lie
16. The caves the humans live in are old volcano tubes
17. Wanda shows doc how to get a soul out of a host
18. Melanie loves a man named Jares
19. Melanie gets her body back
20. Wanda decides to stay on earth